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did "wmic useraccount list" it shows that about 1/3 of our users do not require a password. we tested this and sure enough they don't. how can we change this to require a password. if there is a wmic command that we can do we have not been about to figure it out, we tried "wmic useraccount set PasswordRequired=true" but have not been able to figure out how to set it for different users.

Why does 2 or 3 link icons I have on my desktop changes almost for each boot of the PC. One day they a picture and next day have another. Yhis happens e.g. with the links to http://www.yousendtit.com, to http://visl.sdu.dk/visl/pt/, to http://www.xe.com/ucc/po/ and to http://www.xe.com/ucc/po/ I would be very grateful for an answer.

Why does 2 or 3 link icons I have on my desktop changes almost for each boot of the PC. One day they a picture and next day have another. Yhis happens e.g. with the links to http://www.yousendtit.com, to http://visl.sdu.dk/visl/pt/, to http://www.xe.com/ucc/po/ and to http://www.xe.com/ucc/po/ I would be very grateful for an answer.

Hi, Can someone pls advise me how to get rid of the following error message which appears every time when I plug in or unplug the comp and at start-up when it is unplugged. I am just a regular user of Sony Vaio VGN-TZ150N with Win Vista Business and Sony help directs me to Microsoft and Microsoft to Sony and so on... so I'd appreciate help so I can start enjoying using my brand new computer finally:) "See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. at System.Number.StringToNumb…

Hi all, I try to find which user install program on my server 2003. How can I find ? WMI providor ? logs ? Thanks, Didi

Hi all, I try to find which user install program on my server 2003. How can I find ? WMI providor ? logs ? Thanks, Didi

Any word when Home Server will be available? -- Jim

Any word when Home Server will be available? -- Jim

Hi, We have a group here that is writing web apps that use AD for authentication. Our problem is when they try to authenticate using LDAP, the request is being thrown all over our domain (rather than the local subnet). Sometimes it will hit the local DC, other times it goes to our Mexico site, sometimes over to Maimi, etc. When it goes to our WAN sites, the web app is timing out. What determines which domain is servicing the request and is there anything we can do (aside from hard-coding the DC... due to redundancy reasons of course)? Thanks in advance.

Hi, We have a group here that is writing web apps that use AD for authentication. Our problem is when they try to authenticate using LDAP, the request is being thrown all over our domain (rather than the local subnet). Sometimes it will hit the local DC, other times it goes to our Mexico site, sometimes over to Maimi, etc. When it goes to our WAN sites, the web app is timing out. What determines which domain is servicing the request and is there anything we can do (aside from hard-coding the DC... due to redundancy reasons of course)? Thanks in advance.

Media Player Classic, the lightweight multi-format player, now has a (beta) x64 native version for its Home Cinema variant. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170561 You will need an x64 decoder for it to work. Here's an ffdshow x64 (experimental) decoder for MPC x64 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941&package_id=214245&release_id=523000 Carlos

Hi, When I leave my machine running on a big job I log off by switching user and let it run in background mode. I also turn off the monitor. Sometimes when I try to log back on, the monitor will power up but XP won't power up the monitor with the display. The result is I have to do a complete warm boot via the reset switch - not the result I wanted. Any ideas? Steve Wright

Hi, When I leave my machine running on a big job I log off by switching user and let it run in background mode. I also turn off the monitor. Sometimes when I try to log back on, the monitor will power up but XP won't power up the monitor with the display. The result is I have to do a complete warm boot via the reset switch - not the result I wanted. Any ideas? Steve Wright

Hello, I have Vista Home (on a Dell XPS-410) and at some point during a few days of leaving my machine on, the keyboard acts as if the Windows Key is always depressed: any key I press will act perform the corresponding shortcut. Of course this makes it impossible to type anything. I'm probably activating some sort of Vista feature accidentally that causes this problem, but I'm unable to determine what is causing it and I'm not sure how to get the keyboard back to normal other than rebooting the machine. I'm running Office, VMWare Workstation, RemoteDeskop programs among others. Inside my RemoteDeskop session the keyboard acts as normal. If anybody ha…

our domain controller is running Windows 2003 server R2 enterprise edition (x64). I've installed service pack 2 for it. I tried to harden the server using Security Configuration Wizard. However, all the exceptions defined in Windows Firewall are gone after running SCW. Although I specified server roles such as DNS server, domain controller in SCW, new machines trying to join the domain failed to communicate with the domain controller. So I had to again define those exceptions in Windows Firewall manually. So my questions are: Does SCW always flush out all the exception settings in Windows Firewall? Why did running SCW not help opening ports in my case? …

our domain controller is running Windows 2003 server R2 enterprise edition (x64). I've installed service pack 2 for it. I tried to harden the server using Security Configuration Wizard. However, all the exceptions defined in Windows Firewall are gone after running SCW. Although I specified server roles such as DNS server, domain controller in SCW, new machines trying to join the domain failed to communicate with the domain controller. So I had to again define those exceptions in Windows Firewall manually. So my questions are: Does SCW always flush out all the exception settings in Windows Firewall? Why did running SCW not help opening ports in my…

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